iCell in the Works?

SirWraith writes "Ars Technica is running a story speculating on the possibility of an Apple cellphone." From the article: "At last week's CES, Motorola officially dumped Apple with its new ROKR E2 phone and its new iRadio digital music service. ... After the ROKR's lackluster launch, speculation abounded that Apple was saving the 'good' iTunes phone for itself, and the new 'Mobile Me' trademark lends credence to that line of thinking. At this stage of the game, it looks like Apple is moving in the direction of launching its own cellular service complete with its own lineup of phones (or phone, as the case may be)."

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Dialing with the clickwheel

[jurt1235]

It has some nostalgy to it (-:

Re:This wouldn't surprise me....

[AKAImBatman]

Which would you rather have? An iPod, or a phone with an iPod built in?

Both. Here's how:

1) Purchase a cell phone. Get whatever you want, it doesn't matter.
2) Purchase an iPod Nano.
3) Purchase a role of duct tape.
4) Purchase a book instructing you in the proper use of duct tape. "Red Green's 10,001 Uses for Duct Tape" is highly recommended.
5) Using your newfound knowledge in high precision engineering, duct tape the iPod Nano to your cell phone.

Now you too have a phone and iPod combination all in one, but with none of those silly limitations on the number of songs! Just flip your phone one direction to talk to people, and flip it the other direction to switch the song you're listening to. What could be better? :-D

P.S. 6) Profit!!!

Re:This wouldn't surprise me....

[Billosaur]

Portable device convergence has been obvious for years, with the inclusion of cameras, music players, video players, video calling, games etc... being crammed into mobile phones, it's unsurprising that Apple would want to segway its iPod market into the mobile phone market.

There ya go! Next step: Apple merges with Segway, to produce the Segintosh, which merges phone, video, music and computing with a handy transportation device, only $22,000 USD!